On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:22:10PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On 10/22/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > Hmm, Maybe it's an reiserfs related issue. Do you have the full log file? > > > > Bingo! It can be reproduced in -mm on reiserfs: > > > > # mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sdb1 > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /test > > # cp bin /test > > <wait for a while> > > # dmesg > > [...] > > [ 418.346113] requeue_io 308: inode 6 size 302 at 08:11(sdb1) > > [ 418.346119] requeue_io 308: inode 7 size 196 at 08:11(sdb1) > > [ 418.346125] requeue_io 308: inode 8 size 85 at 08:11(sdb1) > > Since 2.6.23-mm1 I also experience strange hangs during heavy writeouts. > Each time I noticed this I was using emerge (package util from the > gentoo distribution) to install/upgrade a package. The last step, > where this hang occurred, is moving the prepared files from a tmpfs > partion to the main xfs filesystem. > The hangs where not fatal, after a few second everything resumed > normal, so I was not able to capture a good image of what was > happening.
Thank you for the detailed report. How severe was the hangs? Only writeouts stalled, all apps stalled, or cannot type and run new commands? > Today it happend again, but a little more obvious. During the moving > process the writeout stalled completly for several minutes until I hit > SysRq+W. > > /proc/meminfo: > MemTotal: 4061808 kB > MemFree: 881332 kB > Buffers: 0 kB > Cached: 2566628 kB > SwapCached: 64 kB > Active: 926612 kB > Inactive: 1959136 kB > SwapTotal: 9775416 kB > SwapFree: 9775296 kB > Dirty: 44948 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 319068 kB > Mapped: 52844 kB > Slab: 235572 kB > SReclaimable: 164408 kB > SUnreclaim: 71164 kB > PageTables: 9576 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 11806320 kB > Committed_AS: 544520 kB > VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB > VmallocUsed: 35004 kB > VmallocChunk: 34359702447 kB > HugePages_Total: 0 > HugePages_Free: 0 > HugePages_Rsvd: 0 > HugePages_Surp: 0 > Hugepagesize: 2048 kB > > The 'Dirty' count did not decrease during this time and 'Writeback' stayed at > 0. > I also have /proc/pagetypeinfo ,but I see nothing interessing in > there. (But will send it, if needed) > > The output from SysRq+W: > SysRq : Show Blocked State > task PC stack pid father > pdflush D ffff81001fcc2a88 0 285 2 > ffff810005d55580 0000000000000046 0000000000000800 0000007000000001 > 0000000000000400 ffffffff8022d61c ffffffff80817b00 ffffffff80817b00 > ffffffff80813f40 ffffffff80817b00 ffff810100893b18 0000000000000000 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8022d61c>] task_rq_lock+0x4c/0x90 > [<ffffffff8022c8ea>] __wake_up_common+0x5a/0x90 > [<ffffffff805b14c7>] __down+0xa7/0x11e > [<ffffffff8022da70>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 > [<ffffffff805b1145>] __down_failed+0x35/0x3a > [<ffffffff803750be>] xfs_buf_lock+0x3e/0x40 > [<ffffffff803771fe>] _xfs_buf_find+0x13e/0x240 > [<ffffffff8037736f>] xfs_buf_get_flags+0x6f/0x190 > [<ffffffff803774a2>] xfs_buf_read_flags+0x12/0xa0 > [<ffffffff80368614>] xfs_trans_read_buf+0x64/0x340 > [<ffffffff80352151>] xfs_itobp+0x81/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff803759de>] xfs_buf_rele+0x2e/0xd0 > [<ffffffff80354afe>] xfs_iflush+0xfe/0x520 > [<ffffffff803ae3b2>] __down_read_trylock+0x42/0x60 > [<ffffffff80355a72>] xfs_inode_item_push+0x12/0x20 > [<ffffffff80368037>] xfs_trans_push_ail+0x267/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff8035a33b>] xlog_ticket_get+0xfb/0x140 > [<ffffffff8035c5ae>] xfs_log_reserve+0xee/0x120 > [<ffffffff803669e8>] xfs_trans_reserve+0xa8/0x210 > [<ffffffff8035703a>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0xfa/0x410 > [<ffffffff804ce67a>] __split_bio+0x38a/0x3c0 > [<ffffffff80373657>] xfs_start_page_writeback+0x27/0x60 > [<ffffffff8035660c>] xfs_iomap+0x26c/0x310 > [<ffffffff803735d8>] xfs_map_blocks+0x38/0x90 > [<ffffffff80374a88>] xfs_page_state_convert+0x2b8/0x630 > [<ffffffff80374f5f>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x6f/0x120 > [<ffffffff8026acda>] __writepage+0xa/0x30 > [<ffffffff8026b2ce>] write_cache_pages+0x23e/0x330 > [<ffffffff8026acd0>] __writepage+0x0/0x30 > [<ffffffff80354db7>] xfs_iflush+0x3b7/0x520 > [<ffffffff80375782>] _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x222/0x320 > [<ffffffff803ae451>] __up_read+0x21/0xb0 > [<ffffffff8034f22c>] xfs_iunlock+0x5c/0xc0 > [<ffffffff8026b410>] do_writepages+0x20/0x40 > [<ffffffff802b36a0>] __writeback_single_inode+0xb0/0x380 > [<ffffffff804d052e>] dm_table_any_congested+0x2e/0x80 > [<ffffffff802b3d8d>] generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x20d/0x330 > [<ffffffff802b4322>] writeback_inodes+0xa2/0xe0 > [<ffffffff8026bde6>] wb_kupdate+0xa6/0x120 > [<ffffffff8026c2a0>] pdflush+0x0/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff8026c3b0>] pdflush+0x110/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff8026bd40>] wb_kupdate+0x0/0x120 > [<ffffffff8024a32b>] kthread+0x4b/0x80 > [<ffffffff8020c9d8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 > [<ffffffff8024a2e0>] kthread+0x0/0x80 > [<ffffffff8020c9ce>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 > > emerge D ffff81001fcc2a88 0 3221 8163 > ffff81008c0679f8 0000000000000086 ffff81008c067988 ffffffff8024a719 > ffff8100060fb008 ffffffff8022c8ea ffffffff80817b00 ffffffff80817b00 > ffffffff80813f40 ffffffff80817b00 ffff810100893b18 0000000000000000 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8024a719>] autoremove_wake_function+0x9/0x30 > [<ffffffff8022c8ea>] __wake_up_common+0x5a/0x90 > [<ffffffff8022c8ea>] __wake_up_common+0x5a/0x90 > [<ffffffff805b14c7>] __down+0xa7/0x11e > [<ffffffff8022da70>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 > [<ffffffff805b1145>] __down_failed+0x35/0x3a > [<ffffffff803750be>] xfs_buf_lock+0x3e/0x40 > [<ffffffff803771fe>] _xfs_buf_find+0x13e/0x240 > [<ffffffff8037736f>] xfs_buf_get_flags+0x6f/0x190 > [<ffffffff803774a2>] xfs_buf_read_flags+0x12/0xa0 > [<ffffffff80368614>] xfs_trans_read_buf+0x64/0x340 > [<ffffffff80352151>] xfs_itobp+0x81/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff803759de>] xfs_buf_rele+0x2e/0xd0 > [<ffffffff80354afe>] xfs_iflush+0xfe/0x520 > [<ffffffff803ae3b2>] __down_read_trylock+0x42/0x60 > [<ffffffff80355a72>] xfs_inode_item_push+0x12/0x20 > [<ffffffff80368037>] xfs_trans_push_ail+0x267/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff8035c532>] xfs_log_reserve+0x72/0x120 > [<ffffffff803669e8>] xfs_trans_reserve+0xa8/0x210 > [<ffffffff80372fe2>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x32/0x50 > [<ffffffff8035242b>] xfs_itruncate_finish+0xfb/0x310 > [<ffffffff8036d8db>] xfs_free_eofblocks+0x23b/0x280 > [<ffffffff80371d83>] xfs_release+0x153/0x200 > [<ffffffff80377e00>] xfs_file_release+0x10/0x20 > [<ffffffff80294041>] __fput+0xb1/0x220 > [<ffffffff80290e94>] filp_close+0x54/0x90 > [<ffffffff802927af>] sys_close+0x9f/0x100 > [<ffffffff8020bbbe>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 > > > After this SysRq+W writeback resumed again. Possible that writing > above into the syslog triggered that. Maybe. Are the log files on another disk/partition? > The source tmpfs is mounted with any special parameters, but the > target xfs filesystem resides on a dm-crypt device that is on top a 3 > disk RAID5 md. > During the hang all CPUs where idle. No iowaits? ;-) > The system is x86_64 with CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, but was still receiving ~330 > interrupts per second because of the bttv driver. (But I was not using > that device at this time.) > > I'm willing to test patches or more provide more information, but lack > a good testcase to trigger this on demand. Thank you. Maybe we can start by the applied debug patch :-) Fengguang
--- mm/page-writeback.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2.orig/mm/page-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -98,6 +98,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(laptop_mode); /* End of sysctl-exported parameters */ +#define writeback_debug_report(n, wbc) do { \ + __writeback_debug_report(n, wbc, __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__); \ +} while (0) + +void __writeback_debug_report(long n, struct writeback_control *wbc, + const char *file, int line, const char *func) +{ + printk("%s %d %s: %s(%d) %ld " + "global %lu %lu %lu " + "wc %c%c tw %ld sk %ld\n", + file, line, func, + current->comm, current->pid, n, + global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY), + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK), + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), + wbc->encountered_congestion ? 'C':'_', + wbc->more_io ? 'M':'_', + wbc->nr_to_write, + wbc->pages_skipped); +} static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages); @@ -404,6 +424,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, &bdi_thresh, bdi); + writeback_debug_report(pages_written, &wbc); } /* @@ -568,6 +589,7 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned wbc.pages_skipped = 0; writeback_inodes(&wbc); min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write; + writeback_debug_report(min_pages, &wbc); if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) { /* Wrote less than expected */ if (wbc.encountered_congestion) @@ -643,6 +665,7 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg wbc.encountered_congestion = 0; wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES; writeback_inodes(&wbc); + writeback_debug_report(nr_to_write, &wbc); if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) { if (wbc.encountered_congestion) congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);